Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. The NHS’s AI health surveillance The UK’s National Health Service launched three pilot schemes in different parts of England this week, all focused on …
Our first memes in many a moon, and it’s fittingly space-themed. As expected, the US Congress’ “UFO hearings” sparked a rash of meme activity. Enough to spark this back to life. 1. Even the professional memers were getting in on the act. 2. Weirdly, nobody really seemed to care about the “revelations” very much… 3. …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. We name heatwaves now It’s July, which means it’s getting pretty hot in the Mediterranean. Sorry, “getting pretty hot” is old-fashioned talk. What I …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. The vaccines just keep on coming This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s new mRNA-based RSV vaccine for use on …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1.Mink farms for the chop? For some reason the MSM have turned their collective fire on Mink farming this week. Apparently mink farms are dangerous …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Overpopulation and climate change The big population news, reported late last month, is that we just crossed 8 billion humans on the planet (the …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. A somewhat briefer than usual TWitNN today, as our editor has been felled by a bad case of the ‘flu – sorry, we mean “an …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Yearly Covid vaccine updates “like new iphones” The CEO of Moderna gave an interview with CNN this week where he claimed the company is …
KB Goldtooth In September 2021, Bob Moran – then busy balancing his unlikely dual roles of Chief Political Cartoonist at the Daily Telegraph and Unofficial Cartoonist Laurette of the Great Awakening™ – got into trouble. This trouble ultimately resulted in his losing his job (the Telegraph one, that is), forcing him to think of new …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. …is a recession good for the planet? Technically from last week, but more than worthy of note, the Independent headlines that: Europe and China …
